Wake Forest 76, N.C. State 63Wolfpack's seed continues to fall as they lose to the last place Demon Deacons.

Mississippi State 71, Alabama 58Bad loss for the Tide, they can't afford another one in the opening round of the SEC tourney (Georgia or South Carolina is their likely opponent).

Southern Illinois 55, Northern Iowa 46 OTSIU-Bradley championship was the only chance for the MVC to get 6 bids and that's what they got. Missouri State and Creighton fans cannot like this result though because if the conference doesn't get 6 bids then one of those 2 teams will be the first one to get the axe. It will be tough making a bracket tomorrow because of this result.

Washington 70, Arizona 67That's eight in a row for the Huskies as their seed keeps climbing.

George Mason 61, Georgia State 56The bracket would have gotten a whole lot messier if Mason blew this one.

South Florida 63, Georgetown 56Bulls' lone Big East win was a shocker, and will knock the Hoyas down a notch.

California 71, USC 60Bears are the ultimate "bubble" team right now. This past week's results have made it imperative they make a deep Pac-10 tourney run.

Hofstra 72, VCU 66Pride take care of business and now must beat Mason again to stay alive for a bid. A concern for the three CAA hopefuls still playing: The Colonial has not received more than one bid to the Dance in 20 years. With big conference teams getting the wins they need lately, 3 from the CAA is looking less and less likely.

Memphis 69, Houston 62Cougars blew a big first half lead, and couldn't get the marquee win they desperately needed.

Colorado 84, Iowa State 82Buffs are lost in the shuffle right now. They need to make some major noise in the Big 12 tourney.

North Carolina 83, Duke 76Tar Heels ruin Senior Night at Cameron and continue their tear. UNC, incredibly, is looking like a 3 seed, and will likely be a lot of people's "sleeper" in the tourney.

Villanova 92, Syracuse 82Devastating lose for the Orange. 7-9 in Big East will not get it done. Need at least one win in Big East tourney to even get consideration now. Two wins will get them back in the field.

Florida 79, Kentucky 64Gators stopped the bleeding some with a nice road win. Wildcats just need to avoid an upset in the opening round of the SEC tourney and they are a lock.

Florida State 67, Miami 64Seminoles will lock up a bid with a win over Wake in the first round of the ACC tourney.

Southern Illinois 59, Bradley 46The MVC tournament played out perfectly for the conference, with Southern Illinois - the team most on the bubble going in - winning it all. Right now, the MVC is a five-team league, with Creighton looking like the odd team out. By the way, is it against the rules to break 60 in this conference?

Maryland 71, Virginia 70Terps aren't dead yet, but they'll need at least two wins in the ACC toruney to get in the conversation.

Texas 72, Oklahoma 48Impressive win for the Longhorns, who lock up the Big XII tourney's top seed.

Hofstra 58, George Mason 49Hofstra still needs to beat Wilmington in the final to get a bid. The Colonial hasn't earned an at-large bid in two decades: Will Mason break that streak? It'll be a long week for the Patriots.

Houston & UTEP let their at-large chances go down the drain. Colorado doesn't belong in. They nearly squandered a large lead to a bad Iowa State team. The Buffs have struggled down the stretch and are NIT material. Indiana is a lock after a good road win at Michigan. I think Alabama is a lock courtesy of their 10-6 SEC record.

If Cal can win their first Pac-10 tourney game against USC it should be enough to get them a bid but they wouldn't be a lock. A run to the finals would make them a lock.

Texas A&M is getting close to lock status now. A win in their first Big 12 tourney game (likely against Colorado) will make them a lock. A lose and they will have to wait for next Sunday to be sure.

Colorado had only been in the bracket because all the other bubble teams were doing worse then them. With the way teams stepped up this week they are now on the outside looking in and will need at least 2 wins in the conference tourney to even have a chance at a bid.

Southern Illinois may have been saved by winning in conference, but that's a trick that major conferences use all the time - it just so happens the MVC had enough quality of play outside the league to lead to quality of victories inside the league.

People don't seem to blink at the SEC likely getting 6, but several of those teams (Florida, Tennessee, Alabama) only have good wins inside the conference. And note that one of Arkansas's quality wins is a 2 point home win over Missouri State.

That said, I'm thinking Creighton is in a little trouble. Bradley and S. Illnois look good going into the title game (Bradley's RPI is up to 28 as well). N. Iowa has the non-conf wins and Wichita State won the league, ranked 6th. That leaves Missouri State and Creighton. Missouri State has an RPI ranking of 21, which makes me think they are much safer than some people suggest.

Creighton, though, is down to 41, and if Josh Dotzler's not coming back for the NCAA tournament, that's likely to be counted against them.

As the 2-seed in the SEC West, Alabama has a bye to the quarterfinals of the SEC tournament. Likely QF opponent would be the loser of today's Florida-Kentucky game. Only chance for a bad loss would be if Ole Miss upset one of those teams in the opening round.

I wasn't sure if Alabama owned the tie-breaker over Arkansas. So a lose in the quarterfinals for Alabama would probably just mean a lower seed for them.

NC State is a lock. They just aren't looking at a very good seed anymore.

As for Creighton I read that Dotzler will be back in practice this week. But either way they are looking like 6th in line out of the MVC which at this point might not make the cut. The injuries just give the committee another reason to leave them out. If SIU were to lose today they will get the nod over the Bluejays since they swept them in the regular season and Missouri State's RPI and lack of any bad losses gives them the nod over the Bluejays. Creighton will really be sweating it out next Sunday.

what in the world are you talking about james g????.....the "trick", there is no way you can argue that the MVC has had "quality" OOC wins, other than the one team....that team is Northern Iowa who beat iowa by a point, lsu by 3, and bucknell in double ot...thats all this conference has to brag about...thats it, that is not even comparable to the major conferences....there is no way in hell this conference deserves 6 bids, creighton, missouri state, and either northern iowa or bradley don't deserve a bid either.....im gonna laugh so hard when the mvc pulls the old 0 wins in the NCAA and lose to teams from the ACC, SEC, and Big 12 who they will possibly get more bids in....this way the commitee will put it back to way it should be, less mid majors

does anyone think that it is possible that if MD goes on to beat UVA and then win 2 games in the ACC tourney that will include a win over Boston College that they can have hope for making the tourney????

fsu still needs a win vs wake to clinch a spot - a loss there puts them out. Still, 9-7 in the ACC with a win over Duke makes them a viable team, and puts Syracuse and Creighton out of the picture. Maybe knocks one of the MWC teams out, too.

Commentators for UMD/UVa felt that the Terps could get in with 1 more win. They thought 2 would give them a good chance.

I disagree completely. The Terps are not the same team they were with McCray and the committee will take that into consideration. With all of the bubble teams really stepping up their level of play, I think UMD needs 3 ACC Tourney wins (meaning UVa, BC, UNC) to get into the tournament.

The RPI counts each home game as either .6 out of .6 for a win or 0 out of 1.4 for a loss. Conversely a road game is 1.4 out of 1.4 for a win and 0 out of .6 for a loss. Your total RPI comes by adding up the total from each game and then dividing by the total possible. not really complicated at all, so….. since road wins/home losses count more than twice (1.4 vs. 0.6) as much as home wins/road losses, 2-5 on the road is better than 2-1 at home given the same quality of opponents:

2-5 on the road: .4832-1 at home: .462

basically, you have to win 70% of your games at home to break even (.500), but only 30% of your road games to do so.

So when MD(or any BCS school) plays a bunch of home games(which is what BOTH teams want because it is a bigger sold out arena so BOTH teams make more money) out of conference against teams that are as good or even slightly better than the teams the MVC plays out of conference (again half and half home/road or even more on the road), the MVC team needs to only beat 30+% of the other mid majors out of conference on the road to have a higher rpi going into the conference season than MD(or any other big conference school). Then when this MVC team gets in conference they get further boosted from beating the teams in conference on the road that did the same thing. This year the MVC had a perfect storm of away victories that boosted all of their rpi’s before they got into conference play and then by beating each other kept them up.

The idea of making road games worth more then home games makes sense, they just went too far with it. a .8 and 1.2 metric would work much better.

Take Missouri State as an example. http://kenpom.com/sked.php?&y=20...m=Missouri%20St.All of their out of conference road wins are against crap teams, then they play out of conference road games against good teams(and lose) to boost the strength of schedule side of their rpi(they also get paid out to play those road games).Wichita State, same deal. http://kenpom.com/sked.php?team=...am=Wichita% 20St.play san francisco and missouri kansas city(this a d1 school i guess) on the road, get your road wins booster, play some big ten schools on the road, get your sos up, and then head into conference play vastly overrated...

The MVC should not have more bids(or even close to the same amount)as the ACC plain and simple.

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